GPHY 229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Cultural Landscape, Nature Reserve, Absolute Time And Space

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 229
• Professor: George Lovell

Document Summary

Week 2 lecture 1 traditions, innovations, definitions and destinations. David harvey after carl sauer (early 20th c); harvey picked up the mantle. Ellen churchill semple brought over geography from europe/germany to north america. Edward tyler british english anthropologist, a founding father of anthropology. A subjective social and cultural construct: yi-fu tuan pla(cid:272)e is spa(cid:272)e filled (cid:449)ith (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g. pla(cid:272)e as (cid:858)(cid:271)ou(cid:374)ded spa(cid:272)e(cid:859) Space: physical geography; empirical, objective, mappable, human geography; space not only mappable but governed by laws (cid:862)qua(cid:374)titati(cid:448)e (cid:396)e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374)(cid:859)(cid:859) i(cid:374) geog(cid:396)aph(cid:455) Pa(cid:272)e is (cid:858)(cid:859)(cid:858)i(cid:374)he(cid:396)e(cid:374)tl(cid:455) (cid:272)aught up i(cid:374) so(cid:272)ial (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)s(cid:859)(cid:859), it is (cid:858)(cid:859)so(cid:272)iall(cid:455) p(cid:396)odu(cid:272)ed a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:374)su(cid:373)ed(cid:859)(cid:859) Henri lefebvre; absolute space cannot exist; society produces space: david harvey social justice; studied black urban ghetto and its foundations. Other key terms: anthropology the study of all mankind, culture and landscape both words have multiple meanings. Culture: from latin cultura (growth or preparation for growth, gphy (cid:1006)(cid:1006)9 (cid:373)ea(cid:374)i(cid:374)g of (cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e; (cid:858)pla(cid:272)e tilled, to i(cid:374)ha(cid:271)it a pla(cid:272)e i(cid:374)te(cid:374)si(cid:448)el(cid:455), to (cid:272)ulti(cid:448)ate it(cid:859)(cid:859) edward casey.